The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber

Author:Ken Wilber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2018-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

I believe that the meanings of most of those are obvious, and we will define any new terms we need as we go along. The point is simply that, from the available evidence, it appears that you do NOT have to be at the very highest levels in any of the lines in order to possess some sort of spirituality. Not only are there altered states or peak experiences of authentic spirituality (which we will cover in a moment), spirituality itself grows and develops through every level of consciousness, not just the highest. In other words, not only is there a highest-level spirituality (and, see below, an altered-states spirituality), there is a developmental-line spirituality, a spiritual intelligence.

This line, like most of the multiple intelligences, appears to begin somewhere in the earliest years. Even as an adult, you still might only be at stage 1 in your spiritual intelligence, but you are NEVER without some form of spiritual intelligence or spiritual awareness.

So what aspect or dimension of spirituality does spiritual intelligence refer to? How is that aspect of spirituality defined?

Different researchers have defined spiritual intelligence in different ways, based on the type of research and results they are dealing with. But perhaps the simplest and easiest involves the following. Paul Tillich said that “spiritual” refers to that which indicates a person’s ultimate concern. At year one, your ultimate concern may be where to get food, but you are never without some sort of that awareness and meaning-investment. The human organism seems to have evolved, as one of its inherited multiple intelligences, the capacity or smarts for handling ultimate concern.

When it comes to this aspect or dimension of spirituality, everybody has religion. If you are at an orange level of the spiritual line—the individual-reflexive—you may have a very formal, rational version of ultimate concern, as when we say, “Logic is Spock’s religion.” But it is not something you are ever simply without. You can have:

an archaic spirituality (food/sex fetish),

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